The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-30
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
EwS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


in Ware County-A Marshallville
Mans Heavy Loss at Macon The
Farmers of Warren and Adjoining
Counties to Hold Convention.
GEORGIA.
Knoxville now has brickyard.
Grifin's new ice factory began operations
Thursday.
The Sibley Manufacturing Company, of
Augusta, has declared dividend of 4 per
cent.
The capital stock of the Albany Water
Works Company will be from $4,000 TO
$4,000.
Henry r. Remsharts residence at Griffin
was burned Thursday. The loss is covered
by $4,000 insurance.
There is a negro near Montezuma who
owns a 200-acre farm and makes money
every year 1t is said that he works his
children like slaves
There are sixty females, counting infants
to Is years old, in McRae, and fifty males,
counting infants to 10 years old. There are
ten females who can't get a partner for life
The Tallapoosa Land, Mining and Manu-
featuring Company have recently had as
high as 600 men on their pay rolls, and have
paid as high as $500 per week to work
men.
The Ordinary of Stewart county has or
dered an election on the whisky question for
Nov. 80 This county voted it out two years
ago, but it is feared that it will be voted
back.
Two magnificent bouquets were presented
to Hon. Jefferson Davis, one each by Mrs.
NJ. |. Atkin and Mrs. George Mcdonald,
while the train was standing at the depot at
Cuthbert last Monday.
At LAGRANGE Thursday the two lady"
prisoners Matte Gilmore, for larceny after
trust of clothing to be laundried and Mea-
ney Cameron, for arson, picked out the
brick of the Jail, both inside and out, re-
moved the iron bars and escaped. No search
was made Tor them.
Jacob Haslam, of Marshallville, had his
pocketbook stolen from his pocket as he was
boarding the train for home in Macon
Wednesday night. He had $43 in cash. one
note for about $500, and other valuable
papers taken. He had gone prepared to set
tie small bill he was owing in the city, but
all the business houses being closed he failed
to see his man and was finally heeced.
E. H. Prince, of Morgan county, while
cutting in the woods on his place, came
across pine stump, the tree of which had
been cut down in 1871. The stump was per-
fectly green, yet no new growth was
started. The top of the stump looked as if
the tree had been cut down some time, but
when cut into it was perfectly green. The
stump is one inch greater in diameter now
than when cut down in 1871.
There will be gathering of the farmers
of Warren and the adjoining counties at
Norwood on Thursday, Nov. 10, to take into
consideration the depressed condition of
agriculture in their respective counties.
The primary object of the meeting is to take
counsel together to see if they cannot devise
some plan by which their section may be
benefited and agriculture raised to that
standard which the Importance of the sub
ject demands.
respondent sends us the following: "Two
men passed here ON Oct. IS, coming from
the direction of Waycross and going to-
ward Blunk's ferry, said that while travel
ing along the road near the Okefenokee
swamp in the lower part of Ware county
they were attracted by drove of buzzards,
but supposed it was a dead COW or hog.
When upon nearing the spot, to their as
constituent they discovered the body of a
man, who had lain so long, that he was be-
yond recognition. There was no evidence
as to who the unknown man is, or how he
came to his DEATH
Cuthbert Liberal. Mrs D. l. Weaver
and Miss Florence Powell were of our party
in Atlanta last week. and ve do not believe
there are three ladies in Georgia who gave
their escort so little trouble as did they and
our better half" They were pleasant COM
panlons, and If we were not afraid that
Mrs Gum and Isham would take club to
as we wonld say that we fell in love with
them. We have decided that next to our
self Isham Weaver was the luckiest man in
the county when he married, and that the
young men of Cuthbert who do not make
an effort to entrap Miss Florence are -well
they are making a sad mistake.
o. P. Brown, Of Smithville, has in his
possession one-third of a Confederate bill
which was given him under peculiar cir
cumstances. He was a member of the
Fifth Georgia Regiment and was at Greens
boro, n. c., when the war ended Col c.
2. Daniel, of Griffin, was in command of
the regiment. On parting with them, he
took from his pocket a five dollar bill, and.
cutting it into three parts, gave one to
Brown, one to A. R. Clark and
the other to Thomas White, SAYING:
well, boys, this is all can give YOU to re-
member me by. Take it and keep it till we
meet again" They then went their several
ways; not, however, before making a COM
pact with each other, that in the event of
their meeting again, the man who failed to
produce his third should stand the treat
Last year Brown and White met in Macon.
Brown showed up, but White didn't and
had to stand treat Brown lives in Smith
vile, White in Macon, and Clark in Au-
gusta.
On Oct. 8, at his home near Whigham, in
Decatur county, from which he had been
hiding out since April, 1886, Monroe Jones,
a white man, aged about % or % years, was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Clint Williams
under bench warrant charging him with
rape upon Mrs. Martha, or Margaret, Will
lis, aged about 80 years, in April of last
year. After the commission Of the deed
Jones skipped, and so the matter stood until
the September following, when Mrs Willis,
who was a widow lady, lost her mind, it is
alleged, on account of the outrage having
been committed upon her, and in October
following she was tried for lunacy and com
mitted to the State Lunatic Asylum at
Milledgeville, where she now is, still suffer-
ing with lunacy with occasional lucid inter
walls. She, however, recently gave a de-
tailed account of the outrage to one of the
attending physicians, and gave the name of
Monroe Jones as the name of the man who
violated her person. Jones is now in Jail
and his trial will come on at the approach
ing term of our Superior Court.
FLORIDA.
John Bresnan, formerly of Savannah. is
running the Arcade Hotel at Orlando.
A number of fine residences are to be
erected at once in the English settlement.
east of Orlando.
The new Presbyterian Church Mt Taka